What is Paladins?
Paladins is a free-to-play fantasy team-based online shooter video game by Hi-Rez Studios. The game is set in "The Realm" where players can select a number of
champions and roles to play on this team-based game. Each champion has a set of abilities that the player can utilize to achieve the goal of the game.
Champions are the playable characters the player selects to play in the game. There are over 40 playable Champions and 4 roles that the champions fit into. The roles
of the game are Damage, Front Line, Flanker and Support.
Damage
A character who typically has high burst damage needed to eliminate the enemy team.
Front Line
A champion who has a lot of health or defense to help defend a point. Characters such as front line may have abilities
such as shields, turrets, or crowd control abilities in order to defend themselves and their teammates.
Flanker
These champions are the assassins, who have high mobility enabling them to move around
The Realm.
Support
A champion who has abilities to keep their teammates or themselves alive. The role of the support is to ensure the team is able to stay alive
to complete the objective of the game.
Siege
The 'main' Paladins game mode, two teams of 5 race against each other to capture the map's central capture point and, if successful,
push a payload that spawns from it to the enemy base. Each successful push or capture grants one point. Preventing the enemy team from pushing the payload also
grants one point. Additionally, the team that captures the point will get a bonus of 300 credits. The first team to score four points wins the game. A team cannot
score their fourth point on defense, however, meaning that the team must capture a point or push the payload to win.
Onslaught
Teams battle over a large combat area in an attempt to take point control and earn points. Along with holding an uncontested presence on
the control point, slaying enemy players also scores points for the team, akin to a team deathmatch.
Team Deathmatch
A classic game mode in most first-person shooter games, where two teams fight against each other to score kills. The first team
to score 40 kills wins the game.
Ranked
The same game mode as Siege, however when players are choosing a champion, each team can pick two champions to ban, which makes them
unavailable for either team. Also, each team can see the opponent's champions that are picked and selected, and once a champion is picked by any player on a team,
the other team cannot use that same champion.
